For Chart 1, I was determined to find the time trend of the increased incarceration disparities between black and white people in all of the United States over the span of the data set. The reasoning for why I decided this was that by first visualizing the general racial disparities of incarceration gives a clear image of the rooted issue with the prison industrial complex - the unjustified mass imprisonment and forced labor onto blacks.
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For Chart 2, I thought of finding the comparison of how many male juvenile vs adults were incarcerated over the span of the data set. The reasoning for why I decided to compile this chart was to get a clearer understanding of the frequency and values of how much male juveniles are incarcerated in comparison to how many male adults are.
For my map, I decided to plot the points where all of the total black and white incarceration population in Texas in the year 2018. I found this an interesting map to make because of the many differing options with how to display the population displacement across the counties.